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| Snow, David | 1 |
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Direct linkSnow, David – Child Development, 2006
The purpose of this study was to describe the pattern in which English-speaking children acquire intonation. A second goal was to account for emerging intonation from a theoretical perspective. Six groups of 10 children each between the ages of 6 and 23 months participated in individual play sessions with their mothers and an experimenter. Pitch…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Acquisition, Play, Mothers
